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Delhi Blast, Al Fallah, and white-collar terrorism — people are desensitised after watching too much Vivek Agnihotri –style cinema or Arnab Goswami–style news, which rarely emphasise the “why.” So we should turn to academic research to understand the core reasoning.

We need to look at The Psychology of Terrorism by John G. Horgan, Distinguished Psychology Professor at Georgia State University.

Q. Is there anything called a “terrorist personality disorder”? No.

There is only antisocial personality disorder, and most people involved in terrorism are not psychopaths or antisocial misfits isolated from society.

It is almost impossible to run a functional organisation where everyone is a psychopath, because psychopaths are mostly parasitic — they rely on the work of others. Terrorism, from a logistics perspective, requires a lot of ground-level hard work.

Q. Why do people join terrorist organisations?

There are push factors and pull factors.

Pull factors: friends, family, a charismatic leader, or ideology.
Push factors: discrimination from the majority, poverty, unemployment.

Terrorists are not a homogeneous group, so motivations differ.
But roughly:

15% join for ideological or religious reasons
50% for economic reasons (poverty/unemployment)
20% due to family or friends
10% are forced recruits
5% join for revenge

Q. How do they sustain themselves within terrorist organisations?

Typically, there is a 15–20% churn rate because many people escape, defect to rival groups, or cooperate with the government.

It is a misconception that terrorist organisations are homogeneous, that they all hate the government equally, that they don’t hate each other, or that they are free of internal politics and corruption.

A lesson here, especially for urban Indians who are obsessed with efficiency and take issues of inequality, discrimination, and identity for granted: strict punishments alone cannot end corruption.

The remaining 80% sustain themselves emotionally and psychologically through orthodox religious doctrine and its distorted versions, which help them justify criminal acts and provide comfort to overcome the trauma of discrimination and violence from the state or dominant community, due to belonging to a marginalised community.

The sustainer is primarily orthodox religion (or communism, or any other ideology used for oppression), but if we had the right to question religion in mainstream society, then it would be much more difficult to dehumanise a particular section of society, as well as much more difficult for marginalized to commit crime as revenge without guilt.

Mainstream society doesn’t want to question orthodox religion, so in some sense mainstream society is the biggest logistical sustainer of terrorism.

I’ll leave it to you to interpret what happened in the Delhi Blast, but I hope these guiding questions can help you understand which news is politically charged and which one is unbiased.

And hey, why does all this sound so familiar ?
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Problem of terrorism is fundamentally an issue of inability to define an inclusive identity, we can't solve terrorism without solving the issue of Indentity as Indian.

Checkout my previous post on a difficult question regarding identity as Indian.

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/yashp2411_i-still-struggle-to-understand-what-india-activity-7394471132529246209-O8U_?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_android&rcm=ACoAACxrlNsBn9c2b7b2lZ8UK2ckDiW-YTjaB0I
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Yash Pratap We must confront terrorists with the same resolve that China has shown. Your argument about the 'inability to define an inclusive identity' is flawed; because neither the Kashmiri Pandits nor the residents of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, despite their trauma of nuclear bombing, resorted to terrorism.
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🔷 Sashibhusan Satapathy☁️ (ଶଶିଭୂଷଣ ଶତପଥୀ) Indian state is fighting on behalf of Kashmiri Pandits, and since they don’t find good life opportunities in Kashmir, they are not radicalized. Otherwise, if the Indian state had left Kashmir on its own, we might have seen Kashmiri Pandits turn to terrorism. They can’t become terrorists easily, as that requires external support, but they could potentially resort to insurgent-like activities similar to Naxalites. India is not China, they're communist.
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I still disagree with your hypothetical analysis suggesting that Kashmiri Pandits would have become radicalized, as well as the notion that the Indian state is fighting for them. It's important to recognize that since 1990, they have lost everything—property, wealth, and even their loved ones. They have endured extreme exploitation in world history living in exile in their own country, yet none have turned to terrorism. This reflects the strength of their upbringing, not the opposite. Justifying terrorism in the name of oppression, inclusiveness is absurd and do not have any basis.
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GDP per capita and Global Terrorism index GTI, relationship is inverted U. It goes up initial and then a tipping point came and decline. From 1970 to 2014 data studied over 75 major countries by Michael Jetter and various scholars who studied poverty I mean developmental economics.
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I have a feeling that most right wing governments are controlled anarchies — they need these terror incidents to solidify their ideology that Hindu khatre mein hai, or it’s us vs them narratives. It’s a symbiotic relationship against the common man’s interest.

They promise utopia while lying through their teeth. In a complex world, it’s jocular to expect magical transformations overnight. Far from it, we have been cornered into a dystopian doom.
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Balraj Kapini yesterday's left is today's right. We need to consider the fact left and right definition changes according to the "access to education" and "level of affluence". They aren't much different in it's core and left wing violence also exists in north east or naxalites areas. We don't cover that part because it's not relatable to top 10 cities of urban India where people have the luxury to watch the news and think.
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Yash Pratap agree. Violence increases when the fringe becomes mainstream. Parties first and foremost priority is to be in power, by hook or crook. Which means they do precious little in providing quality education, infrastructure, employment, safe sociopolitical environment and a climate that fosters health and well being.

They just have to win at any cost. And a bigger fringe, terror of any kind is helpful to their narrative.

Instead of eliminating terror, the focus should ideally be equivitable upliftment of all sections, and the terror will die on it’s own.
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Yash Pratap for today's social media consumers, that's a lot of psychobabble, unfortunately
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My father happens to be the last one alive who was with Prajapati Parishad Jammu, late Shymaprasad ji used to call him Shastri. Though he left politics in 54-55 as he felt principles were getting compromised. Though before leaving he got 3 High schools & a road built.
With regards to Agnihotri, a few questions & he blocked me because I questioned the invented leaders.
Solution to all issues related to Terrorism Governance Betterment of society is Education which teaches you skills to earn, & respect others. Which teaches you skills to question Why? Which teaches you that learning never ends.

For J&K one should read the taxation structure imposed in 1846 "Zar-e-Nikah"
In mid 20's slogan "Kashmir for Kashmiri" when Raja Hari Singh was recruiting outsiders & the 1927, he had to make a special provision to define the rights of permanent residents which was later called 370. Once a person reads & understand who objected to the king & who gained maximum all becomes clear 😊
Likewise most don't know that late N. Gopalaswami Ayyangar 1st arrested Late Sheikh Abdullah 😀
https://www.jammukashmirnow.com/Encyc/2021/6/7/Story-Of-India-s-First-Nationalist-Movement-Praja-Parishad-Its-emergence-birth-of-organizational.html

Story Of India's First Nationalist Movement, Praja Parishad; Its emergence & birth of organizational structure

1. EMERGENCE OF PRAJA PARISHAD(1) BIRTH OF PRAJA PARISHADPrior to accession of the state of J&K in 1947 with Indian Union, there was no major political party in Jammu unlike in the valley of Kashmir.There were outfits like Naw Jawan Sabha, Muslim...
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Any thing that is organized - from education to religion to farming - goes against intuition and nature. This becomes a fertile ground for disapproval, distrust, disappointment and ultimately dissent.
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Dr.Soma Basu these things requires logistics support which you can't get or Hindu's. Only 30% are fighters (active+passive) and 70% are logistical supporters. These 70% supporters exists as mainstream society oppress average Muslim in this country. Terrorist attack don't happen daily, they happen less frequently so the role of logistical supporter is 80% and militant are 20%. People are trying to fight the militant not logistical supporters.

Mainstream society doesn’t want to question orthodox religion of Hindu or Muslim, so in some sense mainstream society is the biggest logistical sustainer of terrorism.
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Dr.Soma Basu logistical supporters exists because of "inability to question orthodox religion" as orthodox religion helps them justify all sorts of violence.

Orthodox Hindu religion - Make majority oppressors.

Orthodox Muslim religion - Make minority rebellion.

In the end everyone loses only capitalist who controls platform wins.
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Mahesh Kumar S oppression faced by big chunk of population living in poverty who can provide logistical support (70% people) are needed to sustain this. Osama and all are just scapegoat, real culprit is this society who focuses on Osama not on average people who provides logistical support for years and these people are oppressed and they're majority and they don't even know what they are doing.
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Mahesh Kumar S if there were no country like Pakistan Afghanistan where too much poverty exists Is it possible to do anything for terrorist leaders? No. Qatar is supplying logistics to extremists organisation because extremists organisation exists due to poverty in that particular country. If Qatar is a supplier then there is a reciever too ..
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Mahesh Kumar S see the GDP per capita and Global Terrorism index GTI, relationship is inverted U. It goes up initial and then a tipping point came and decline. From 1970 to 2014 data studied over 75 major countries by Michael Jetter and various scholars who studied poverty I mean developmental economics.
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Manu Joseph had the best analysis of this gruesome phenomenon. It's a mental illness that afflicts the educated more.

https://www.livemint.com/opinion/columns/why-the-well-educated-suicide-bomber-is-not-a-surprise-1556270645500.html
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Prasant B. definitely it's a form of schizophrenia but it is sustained by orthodox religious doctrine which helps them with the coping mechanism. Victims of discrimination are real threats and if state discriminates against a particular community then few of the mentally unstable victims can be pushed towards such behaviours regardless of their professional educational qualification.
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Mahesh Kumar S Kashmiri pundits population in Kashmir isn't sufficient to do such activities, it's roughly 10,000 and their TFR is 1.8 which means extra kids not available so it makes logistics impossible. Lack of children means value of life > value of assets. Kashmiri pundits has a way out because they're pundits and they're acceptable in mainstream society and community was already educated one. 50% members of terrorist organisations are normal people who aren't militant but most of them are very poor. Kashmiri Hindu's don't have a a place where big chunk of them lives in poverty and where recruitment can be done.
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Mahesh Kumar S No, they don't have logistics and precondition to form a terrorist organisations that's why they can't be organised terrorist but they can be criminals definitely. Terrorist is a criminal who uses terror method to get his work done. Kashmiri Muslim are already traumatized so Kashmiri pundits can't traumatize them anymore.
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There are extremism concepts in Psychology that make people into terrorists and tend to throw bombs on their kids. It's a major cultural difference that roots from false ideologies based in religion, lack of education, and cultural conditioning.

Needless to say.. YES, there are psychological traits and cues that make terrorists the way they are. Terrorism is an Act, therefor, it can't a mental illness.
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